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I've come to the conclusion that people peddle pseudoscience for attention. The power of authority is earned through clever word use rather than hard work. These people have no interest at all in pursuing scientific inquiry and debate only gives them ammunition. The only way to deal with such individual is to take away their audience; attacking their arguments directly is often ineffective.
So I'm thinking that the best strategy is character assassination or appealing to the audience. With character assassination undermining their authority will cause followers to jump ship. The only issue here is that followers will simply seek another source of misinformation unless we catch them before they get there. When appealing to the audience we are using our debate with the pseudoscientist for access to his audience thus giving us an opportunity to educate them.
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